The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-07-05
OF GENERAL INTEREST.

20 MAKE law that shall protect pat
terms and models for the metal indus
try.
i 1t costs about one and one-hali
cents pound TO manufacture sugar
inc" by the secret formula which is in
use.
-Side-saddles were first used in
England in 1888. Up to that time
ladies rode on horseback just as the
men.
| Bank note engraving is said to
have been carried to greater perfec-
ton in the United States than any
where else in the world.
| "A white owl flew aboard steamer
from Hull, England, while seven hun
dred and fifty miles from land, recent
ly. and was brought to Boston.
The first triple expansion engine
built in the United States was from the
Goss Machine Engine Works, Bath,
Me-. and was put on board the steamer
Meteor.
There must be some profit in five
cent music, for a man who deals in it
and sells nothing else, has taken a
store ON Broadway, N. Y, at a yearly
rental of six thousand five hundred dol
lars.
General Annenkoff, who is build
ing the Russian railroad at Bokhara, is
man of fifty-five years, full of vigor,
energy and hope. His wife is less than
half his age and is very wealthy Ger
man lady.
"A bald eagle killed recently near
Santa Rosa, Cal, measured seventy
eight inches from tip to tip of his
wings, and his talons, when opened,
measured seven and quarter inches.
Chicago Herald.
The bounty law passed by the Mon
tana Legislature gives on mountain
lions and bears three dollars, wolves
two dollars, COYOTES one dollar, prai-
RE dogs ten cents, and ground squir-
rels five cents each.
"A correspondent of the Buffalo
Commercial Advertiser SAYS of Mrs.
Wilson, who is the sister of P. P. Bliss:
with a voice sweet and of great
strength, she moves at will an audience
to tears or high resolve"
Edward Payson Weston, the father
of long distance walking, has again
returned to journalism, his original
occupation. and he is now member of
the staff of one of the morning papers
of this city.-N. Y. Herald.
The work performed by the human
body in day in circulating the blood,
in breathing and in other processes is
equal to that of twenty-five horse power
for one minute, or sufficient to light a
three-candle incandescent lamp contin-
uously.
English horticulturists have redis-
covered an old-fashioned flower, DAFT
fodil, which differs from all known DAFT
fodils. Its blossoms are of n clear,
bright chrome yellow, and it has been
called Narcissus cyclamineus, on ac-
count of its refexed perianth.
The number of horses exported
from the port of New York during the
past four years, and their value, was as
follows: In 1883, $40 head; value, SOL
$50. In 1884, 4SS head; value. $751;.
635. In 1885, S75 head; value, s143,.
481. In 1886, SSS head; value, $780,
S58.
The Russian Empress is one of the
most active of women. She rises early
and goes to bed late, walks a great
deal, reads enormously, is passionately
fond of dancing and dress, and still |
finds time for works of charity, which |
she generously patronizes-Chicago |
Herald.
"A tract of sulphur, one hundred
and twenty-five acres in extent and |
from three to fifteen feet deep, is said |
to have been discovered in the Tara
vera district of New Zealand, where |
the great volcanic CONFUSION occurred |
last year. According to the natives, it |
has been known to them for years.-M
y Ledger.
1t has been calculated that in dig
ging a square perch of ground, with
spits of the usual dimensions of 7xS |
inches, the spade is thrust into the
ground 700 times; and that as each
spadeful of earth, if the spade pene-
trate. as it ought to, nine inches,
weighs on an average quite seventeen
pounds, there are 1890 pounds of
earth in perch nine inches deep
Boston Budget.
I'm Yell County, Ark, last week,
Mrs. Sarah Dimnitt was riding along
the road with her little boy behind her,
and in passing burning tree saw that
it was going to fall across the road.
She screamed and the horse stopped
still, when, quick as lightning, she
jumped off, snatched her child and got
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